The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced Monday it has posted a video and audio podcast on the agency's self disclosure protocol, the most recent of its video and audio presentations on top healthcare compliance topics.

The new video and audio podcast shows how to disclose and resolve potential fraud issues identified by an organization's compliance program by using OIG’s Self-Disclosure Protocol. 

The Office of Inspector General has provided a laundry list of management and performance challenges facing the Department of Health and Human Services. Many have IT implications, such as improving patient safety, preventing Medicare and Medicaid fraud and ensuring that IT systems and data are secure.

The overriding theme is that the department must strengthen its oversight capacity.

Every year, OIG identifies for HHS the most significant new and emerging challenges the department faces. In...

A burgeoning market for healthcare peripherals and increasing smartphone processing power will result in the number of patients monitored by mobile networks to rise to 3 million by 2016, according to a new report on the mHealth sector from Juniper Research.

Health Evolution Partners, the private equity firm launched by former National Coordinator for Health IT David Brailer, MD, announced Monday it has partnered with Verizon to encourage innovation and adoption of connected health technologies.

Under the multiyear agreement, Health Evolution Partners (HEP) and Verizon Connected Healthcare Solutions will collaborate to identify and work with companies to spur the development and adoption of advanced information technology solutions and applications in areas such as mobile health, telemedicine and...

The GOP primary candidates head to Nevada on Saturday, a state with poor healthcare and few healthcare resources -- also one that has plunged in and begun implementing what it can of the Affordable Care Act, even though many in the state doesn't agree with the politics of it.

Health information exchange will ramp up significantly in 2012 because the necessary elements of interoperability will be in place, ONC chief Farzad Mostashari, told the Health IT Policy Committee at a meeting Feb. 1.

The health information exchange strategy means finally bringing together the standards, identity authentication certificates, governance for rules of the road, and the availability of directories or digital provider phone books.

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While the American Medical Association (AMA) is calling for a halt to ICD-10, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is countering by urging all to stay the course toward the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline.

In the letter sent Thursday to Department of Health and Humans Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius., AMA CEO James Madara, MD urged HHS “to make good on its commitment to improve the regulatory climate for physicians.”

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Minnesota is home to the Mayo Clinic – a world-renowned institution for medical care, research and education, employing more than 3,700 of the smartest physicians and scientists and scientists in the world and caring for patients from across the globe.

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As the industry is slowly changing the way it serves patients, cloud computing has become a way to reduce costs, improve services and simplify management. But with the growing use of cloud service come concerns about its performance and overall quality, said Daniel Joseph Barry, vice president of marketing at Napatech.  

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